Where Luxury Meets the Smokies: New Luxury Big Cabins in Gatlinburg
GATLINBURG – A new development in Gatlinburg bridges the gap between rustic hillside cabins and well-appointed downtown hotel rooms. Cherokee Orchard has four big luxury rental cabins and a pool house with indoor pool — so far. The development at 368 E. Holly Ridge Road is already available for rent, but four more cabins are […]
Weddings in the Smokies
Couple the beautiful natural chapel of the Smoky Mountains with the relatively minor requirements for getting married on the Tennessee side of the Smokies and you will understand why a Smokies wedding and honeymoon is second in popularity only to Las Vegas. Couples can be joined in holy matrimony in a chapel, the National Park […]
Gatlinburg, TN
Gatlinburg, TN is a typical little mountain town but what they have to offer visitors to the area is anything but ‘little.’ With shopping lining both sides of the Parkway, attractions at every corner, you can visit Gatlinburg and never leave the mountain. Nestled right against the Smoky Mountains and the Great Smoky Mountains National […]
Blowing Rock, NC
Blowing Rock may be the first tourist town in the Smokies. After people got word of the beautiful area, this became a vacation spot with people camping, just to spend time in the mountains. Now, Blowing Rock is the one of the premier resort cities on the North Carolina side of the Smokies. Shopping, art […]
A Bear Story
The last time I visited the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, my husband and I observed some curious human behavior. We were traveling the loop in Cades Cove when we saw a crowd of people getting out of their cars. Some among them were closely approaching a black bear to take photographs. Alan looked at […]
Kermit Hunter
Kermit Hunter is a well known American playwright. But, he is also known in the history of the Smokies due to the fact that he wrote Unto These Hills, the second longest running outdoor drama in the US and one of the highlights to any visit to Cherokee, NC. He also wrote the outdoor drama, […]
Harrisburg Covered Bridge
There has been a covered bridge in the Harrisburg Community of Sevier County since the mid 1800s. The bridge was used by the locals to cross the East Prong of the Little Pigeon River and connected the two separate parts of the community. Originally, the Harrisburg Covered Bridge was named the McNutts Bridge but in […]
History of Highlands, NC
The town of Highlands was founded in 1875 by two developers living in Kansas who, according to legend, took a map in hand and drew a line from New York to New Orleans. Then they drew another line from Chicago to Savannah. These lines, they predicted, would become major trade routes in the future, and […]
Waynesville, NC
Waynesville is a cross between a resort town and all-Americana. Great downtown eating and shopping makes for a great visit. Waynesville is close enough to Asheville for a day trip and close enough to the Smokies to make it a fun place to spend some time or even overnight to enjoy a great meal and […]
History of Townsend, TN
The origins of Townsend, Tn can be traced back, like many area towns and cities, to the Cherokee Indian tribes that roamed the Smoky Mountain region and used them as hunting grounds before the first English settlers stepped foot here in the 1700s. The Little River Valley and the surrounding tributary streams were called Tuckaleechee […]